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What Is A Database Management System

A database management system (DBMS) is software that allows users to create, manage, and access databases. It provides tools to create and update database tables, retrieve information from the database, and enhance data. The DBMS also administers the database schema, which dictates the database structure. While the DBMS is typically only seen by database developers, developers can provide front-end software for customers to access the database without seeing the DBMS. Benefits of a DBMS include improved data sharing and security, effective data integration, consistent and reliable data, data compliance with regulations, increased productivity, and better decision-making.

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What Is A Database Management System

A database management system (DBMS) is software that allows users to create, manage, and access databases. It provides tools to create and update database tables, retrieve information from the database, and enhance data. The DBMS also administers the database schema, which dictates the database structure. While the DBMS is typically only seen by database developers, developers can provide front-end software for customers to access the database without seeing the DBMS. Benefits of a DBMS include improved data sharing and security, effective data integration, consistent and reliable data, data compliance with regulations, increased productivity, and better decision-making.

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What is a Database Management System (DBMS)?

A database management system is a software tool used to create and manage one or more
databases, offering an easy way to create a database, update tables, retrieve information, and
enhance data. A DBMS is where data is accessed, modified and locked to prevent conflicts.

A database management system also provides tools to administer the database schema – which
dictates the structure of the database itself. In many cases, the database management system will
be seen only by the database developer, because the developer will provide a different front-end for
the customer. This front-end could be considered, by the most technical definition, to be a database
management system in its own right — however, it is more likely to go by another name, such as a
customer relationship management (CRM) tool.

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Business Benefits of a DBMS

Since quality data management implies a centralized view of data, teams need a solution that allows
them to orchestrate everything, including monitoring who is accessing the system and where they’re
accessing it from. A database management system helps improve organizational security,
integration, compliance, and performance.

1. Improved data sharing and data security

Database management systems help users share data quickly, effectively, and securely across an
organization. By providing quick solutions to database queries, a data management system enables
faster access to more accurate data. End users, like salespeople, are able to speed up sales cycles
and get more accurate in their sales prospecting.

2. Effective data integration

Implementing a database management system will promote a more integrated picture of your
operations by easily illustrating how processes in one segment of the organization affect other
segments. What once was done completely manually now can be fully automated and more
accurate. The right DBMS will include flexible integration options to standardize data across multiple
sources, remove duplicates, normalize, segment, and enrich data sets into custom workflows.
3. Consistent, reliable data

Data inconsistency occurs when different versions of matching data exist in different places in an
organization. For example, one group has a client’s correct email, another the correct phone
number. By using a proper database management system and data quality tools, you can be sure
that an accurate view of data is shared throughout your organization.

4. Data that complies with privacy regulations

Database management systems provide a better framework for the enforcement of privacy and
security policies. By orchestrating data in a unified manner, companies can manage privacy and data
security centrally, helping unify their systems of record and lower the risk of regulatory violations.

5. Increased productivity

Deploying a DBMS typically results in increased productivity because a good DBMS empowers
people to spend more time on high-value activities and strategic initiatives, and less time cleaning
data and manually scrubbing lists.

6. Better decision-making

Decisions built on data are only as good as the information used. A database management system
helps provide a framework to facilitate data quality initiatives. Better data management procedures
generate higher-quality information, which leads to better decision-making across an organization.

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